Not taking note of the road still being wet because it had just rained, I went into the turn going 65 and the rear tires started to spin and it made the rear end of the truck kick out to the right, so I let off the gas and spun the steering wheel to the right but I ended up over correcting and the truck started to run off the road. There really isn't a ditch there it is just a very steep bank and I wasn't able to steer the truck back on the road in time, the way I hit the bank made the whole truck flip completely over landing on my top I slid down the road like that for about fifty yards until finally coming to a stop. The grinding noise the metal made while sliding down the road has to be one of the most terrifying sounds I have ever heard, the smell of the headliner melting from the heat of cab grinding on the road was awful, when I first smelt it I thought that the truck had caught fire. But all I can remember after that is coming to upside down with my left leg somehow wedged between the dash and the road, it took me what felt like hours to get my leg unstuck I ended up having to cut half of my boot off to pull my foot out of it. The cab was so smashed that I barely had enough room to crawl out the back glass and out underneath the bed, and at that moment I had so much adrenaline pumping through me that I was convinced that I could roll the truck back over on its wheels and drive it home but you could have guessed that wasn't going to happen. I do feel that I was very lucky to be up and walking around with only a cut on my hand, after all it was a very fatal accident that I was just involved in.
After the truck was towed back to my house I sat and stared at it for hours, I couldn't get over the fact that I had just ruined my truck. But then I finally started to take off things that I could salvage and sell. I tore the truck completely apart and put it all on craigslist hoping that someone would want some of it since I did not have have full coverage on my insurance so I knew I wouldn't get any money from the insurance company.
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Her memoir definitely shows a softer side of Hillary. ... She has all of her research and experience in trying to develop a plan for healthcare. ... This shows that it takes experience to get things accomplished in Washington. ... All of America already knows who Hillary Clinton is and for good or bad, they now know all about her personal life. This will make it easier for her to force her opponents to focus on the political issues instead of personal issues. ...
Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir. ... Being a close friend to Isherwood, he got a first look at the experiences that transformed into The Berlin Stories. ... This book tries to show the relationship between the events of the upcoming war with the experiences of Isherwood and Auden. Unlike Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir, this book makes little reference to The Berlin Stories, and avoids relating Isherwood's experiences to his work. ... Christopher Isherwood and Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir, both take an intense look at the relationship between the life and wor...
Most children experience bullying at some point in their academic careers. ... The experience of bullying perceived by many people including Frances in her memoir entitled "Frog spawn frolics and a heart attack.... Another memoir written by the same person entitled "Little fish, big pond" is about the experience of Frances at the grand age of 11 when she was moved to secondary school and gave her a huge shock. ... In similarities, both memoirs tell a story about experience of bullying in school. ... In contrast, the first memoir only told us about her sister who are respected i...
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Throughout the memoir she uses different examples to show the dominance of men. ... Kingston writes a memoir consisting of many pages of story telling. A memoir is something such as a journal, something to look back on in the future and remember the times. Kingston's use of story telling in a memoir is peculiar, but her intentions are for it to be this way. ... Terry Eagleton writes of the reflection of the experience, "art does more than just passively reflect that experience. ...
Gates" first experience with racism is when he sees Mr. ... Linda's prejudice against Gates is cognitive and not emotional, which is more of a personal bias. ... Gates never fully experiences the immersion stage to an extent. ... From writing this memoir and educating people about life during integration, Gates proves his direction towards commitment. The memoir "Colored People" explores the treatment of racial identity, culture and experience. ...
A Review of Memoir of a Basque Lieutenant Nun Transvestite in the New World Memoir of a Basque Lieutenant Nun Transvestite in the New World is the translated autobiography of Catalina de Erauso, a woman who spent most of her adult life posing as a man after fleeing her convent shortly before she would take her final vows. ... There are many interesting points in this memoir; however, some of them seem quite unbelievable. ... She traveled to so many places and everywhere that she went she encountered or had experiences with many others. ... This historical memoir could be used to inspire...
A superficial reading of this memoir concludes that the work is beautifully, emotionally, and honestly written; even so, Didion's hollow tone in the memoir and the ornate and subdued dictions make the work looks rather like a reference book about grief rather than a memoir. Didion opens her memoir by admonishing the reader that life can change in split second, which is repeated several times throughout her memoir. ... Digging deeper into the memoir, Didion construes that how unexpectedly her husband passed and how suddenly her daughter's normal cold turned into pneumonia and sept...
